A thread for Wes Anderson's "The Fantastic Mr. Fox"

nothing in TDL on a par with Stiller-Hackman.

this is my 8 year old son's 2nd favorite movie

what is the first favourite??

ugh, I can't remember! I think I was so surprised this was his 2nd favorite that I blacked out

xYeah, def feel like, in retrospect, Darjeeling > Tenenbaums

o_O

could not disagree more

nothing in TDL on a par with Stiller-Hackman.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:34 (15 hours ago)

succintly 100% OTM

left me so cold i was shivering. have decided i now hate wes anderson - i actually loved the royal tenenbaums but i'm scared to watch it again in case i see it for the rote anderson one-dimensional schtick-heavy facade that it is.

that's all that LYFE is man DO U C

would think twice about sitting through that again too

this is my 8 year old son's 2nd favorite movie

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Sunday, April 4, 2010 11:18 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what is the first favourite??

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Sunday, April 4, 2010 11:50 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

I asked and number one favorite was 9 (the postapocalyptic puppet movie, not the bob fosse/rob marshall abomination)

although he now claims the LOTR trilogy occupies spots 1 to 3

left me so cold i was shivering. have decided i now hate wes anderson - i actually loved the royal tenenbaums but i'm scared to watch it again in case i see it for the rote anderson one-dimensional schtick-heavy facade that it is.

― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Thursday, April 8, 2010 11:02 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

yeesh. sometimes i just like pretty pictures, you know?

saw this finally last weekend -- loved it! totally funny, nice to look at, good music. was a little bit scared because I did not like the way the animation looked in the preview, but it was quite lovely once I got accustomed to it.

Just saw this. Holy crap it was good! After just 5 minutes I knew it was going to be my favorite movie of 2009! When it switches to the TV displaying "LIVE" with a network news logo and the animals jumping out of a manhole covering and striking ninja poses, it's the funniest, most surreal thing I've seen in a movie in years.

this is my 8 year old son's 2nd favorite movie
glad to hear this! at first I thought Anderson had missed the mark in terms of a movie both kids and adults would like, but then i though that I would've loved it as a kid.

Yeah i can see alot of the jokes that i laughed at, a kid would laugh at, and maybe for different reasons. It's very well made!

I think I laughed the hardest at the made-up sport - stickbat or whatever it was called

yeesh. sometimes i just like pretty pictures, you know?

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 8 April 2010 20:04 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

?_?

films are more than just pretty pictures, if i want that i go to an art gallery.

also it wisnae that pretty.

oh, i know that films are more than that. but it was really pretty IMO.

it was charming, rather than pretty- it was also hilarious- some of the visual gags were inspired- fox eating for the first time, badger's eyes.

Love the scene in the second farm where the owner is in the foreground and we're watching the heist progress in steps across 5 TV sets. Very creative use of framing throughout this movie.

i've decided i unreservedly love this movie.

this was very enjoyable

Not everyone could muster a magnanimous word for Anderson's M.O. -- especially his on-set absence. "I think he's a little sociopathic," cinematographer Oliver said. "I think he's a little O.C.D. Contact with people disturbs him. This way, he can spend an entire day locked inside an empty room with a computer. He's a bit like the Wizard of Oz. Behind the curtain."

Informed of Oliver's discontent, Anderson said: "I would say that kind of crosses the line for what's appropriate for the director of photography to say behind the director's back while he's working on the movie. So I don't even want to respond to it."

this reads like dialogue from a wanderson film

just saw this and I loved it. who cares if it wasn't really a kids movie.

loved the photography in this - how everything was a straight on, flattened videogame 2D platformer perspective.

now I want wanderson to make a full length movie about the vietnam war play from rushmore.

Wasn't really a kids movie? My kid liked it.

I liked basic instinct when I was a kid

actually that movie has imbued me with lifelong pathologies about leaving screwdrivers near the bed

Yes, but that beaver wasn't a cartoon.

I dunno I guess I just got annoyed at the handwringing upthread about "was this really a KIDS movie???"

who cares

RIP cankles

I did have a long talk with him about stealing chickens afterward, though.

did you tell him to kill them in one bite?

My 3-year-old's into this now and after repeat exposure it feels like a classic.

also why were all the animals american

― doomed... to fart (cankles), Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:44 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

yeah this is why i haven't seen it

One friend of mine said that this was the first movie that made his two sons (5 and 8, or so) shut up and pay attention all the way through.
It has created within me a desire to locate the Bobby Fuller Four song "Let her Dance" in a vinyl format.

is that actually why you haven't seen it? xp

pretty much
tho
hmm
maybe not -- think wes andy has sucked since 'tenenbaums'

I'm not a wes anderson fan at all and I guess tbh don't generally care for movies in general but I liked this one a whole lot fwiw. And I watched it after seemingly everyone I know recommended it, so had p. high expectations. Not dying to see it again anytime soon but I bet if I did I'd enjoy it again just the same

so so so good

re-watched last night. so good.

yeah really loved this

Goddamn anyone who doesn't like this movie.

Seriously. I need to get the dvd.

yeah, best movie. plus CRAZY beloved of the little kids in my circle. encouraging indicator.

best movie ever

I only saw it like a month ago but I'm excited about watching it on a cold rainy/snowy day soon

i just saw this for the first time last night, it was great, quirky maybe but in all the right ways and just terrifically pretty

maybe my favorite wes after bottle rocket

I can see myself getting this for my 5 year old nephew for christmas. I would ask if that's too young but he loves the Transformers movies so I guess it's cool.

get it for everyone for christmas imo

I don't like the way Wes Anderson shot this. Everything's centered and flat and brown. I didn't think this looked that good at all. I mean, the models and backgrounds were very well done, but it was unimaginatively staged. And the voice acting was some of the worst I've ever heard, no exaggeration.